diff --git a/programming/language/python3/python3-backports.functools_lru_cache/pspec.xml b/programming/language/python3/python3-backports.functools_lru_cache/pspec.xml
index f4cbf1ef0c..9da4bc489e 100644
--- a/programming/language/python3/python3-backports.functools_lru_cache/pspec.xml
+++ b/programming/language/python3/python3-backports.functools_lru_cache/pspec.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         <Description>Backport of functools.lru_cache from Python 3.3 as published at ActiveState.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="1138f9e884e420c55a58a4ca7c08dc67b803c5d3" type="targz">https://github.com/jaraco/backports.functools_lru_cache/archive/v1.6.4.tar.gz</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>pip3</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-devel</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-setuptools</Dependency>
             <Dependency>python3-setuptools-scm</Dependency>